Open Letter from Morton Grove Residents, Businesses & Organizations Supporting a Welcoming Community Ordinance To the President and Trustees of the Village of Morton Grove, and candidates for election for Mayor and Trustee: We, the undersigned residents, community organizations, and businesses who make up the Morton Grove community, write to

by Nora Shelly Before moving to Evanston seven years ago, Rev. Dr. Patricia Efiom raised her children in Bloomington, Indiana, where she said they were often the only children of color in their grade. “Our children had to exist in that community,” she said. “I quickly learned the way to

On February 12, 2017, Eileen Heineman of the YWCA Evanston/North Shore, shared these words of wisdom: Take a moment to look around this crowded room and breathe in how good it is to be with people who share our beliefs, our fears, our hopes. Be strengthened by that as you

Winnetka-based non-profit hosts community discussion to state core beliefs, plan local action. By Jonah Meadows There’s no Presidential State of the Union address in a year a new president is inaugurated. Instead, this year, hundreds of members of communities of Chicago and its northern suburbs gathered at St. Nicholas Church

photo by Katie Pach written by Allyson Chiu U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and local activists called on community members to stay united and keep “standing up for justice” during an event Sunday in Evanston. More than 300 people packed the cafeteria at the Pope John XXIII School, 1120 Washington

Open Communities Evanston Justice Team pens an open letter to Mayor Tisdahl, members of the City Council, and candidates for election for mayor and alderman in 2017 Submitted to Evanston Patch > We are very encouraged that the City of Evanston is in the process of hiring an Equity and

More than 1,000 people of different faiths marched in solidarity with the Muslim community on Sunday in Morton Grove. by Genevieve Bookwalter About 500 people packed the basement of the Muslim Education Center Sunday while hundreds more spilled upstairs and outside the building, during an interfaith demonstration calling for sanctuary

Multiracial and multi-faith group joined by elected officials to express solidarity with of Muslim and Arab, immigrant, LGBT, Jewish communities and with those with disabilities The day after Chicagoans shut down O’Hare Airport to force the release of detained refugee families and resist President Trump’s ongoing flurry of executive orders